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The person responsible for governing a group that lives together, such as a family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
the head of a household or family or tribe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: head, chief, top dog
Narrower terms: matriarch, materfamilias, patriarch, paterfamilias
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
i zoti
— household role
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Belarusian:
галава́ сям'і́
(halavá sjamʺí)
— household role
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Bulgarian:
глава́ на семе́йството
(glavá na seméjstvoto)
— household role
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Chinese Mandarin:
戶主 /户主
(hùzhǔ)
— household role
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Chinese Mandarin:
家長 /家长
(jiāzhǎng)
— household role
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Czech:
hlava rodiny
— household role
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Dutch:
heer des huizes
— household role
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Esperanto:
domestro
— household role
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Finnish:
perheenpää
— household role
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Finnish:
perheenhuoltaja
— household role
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French:
chef de famille
— household role
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Galician:
patrón
— household role
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Galician:
patroa
— household role
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German:
Haushaltsvorstand
— household role
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German:
Haushaltungsvorstand
— household role
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Greek:
νοικοκύρης
(noikokýris)
— household role
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Greek:
νοικοκυρά
(noikokyrá)
— household role
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Greek:
κύρης
(kýris)
— household role
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Ancient Greek:
δεσπότης
(despótēs)
— household role
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Hindi:
गृहपति
(gŕhpati)
— household role
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Hindi:
घर का मुखिया
(ghar kā mukhiyā)
— household role
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White Hmong:
tswv tsev
— household role
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Hungarian:
családfő
— household role
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Irish:
fear an tí
— household role
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Irish:
bean an tí
— household role
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Italian:
capofamiglia
— household role
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Japanese:
世帯主
(setainushi)
— household role
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Japanese:
家長
(kachō)
— household role
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Kannada:
ಎರೆ
(ere)
— household role
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Korean:
세대주
(sedaeju)
— household role
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Korean:
가장
(gajang)
— household role
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Latin:
pater familiās
— household role
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Lithuanian:
šeiminiñkas
— household role
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Pali:
gahapati
— household role
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Iranian Persian:
بُزُرْگ
(bozorg)
— household role
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Polabian:
vart
— household role
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Polish:
głowa rodziny
— household role
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Prakrit:
𑀕𑀺𑀳𑀯𑀇
(gihavaï)
— household role
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Romanian:
cap de familie
— household role
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Russian:
глава́ семьи́
(glavá semʹí)
— household role
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Sanskrit:
गृहपति
(gṛhapati)
— household role
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Sicilian:
capufamigghia
— household role
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Slovak:
hlava rodiny
— household role
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Spanish:
cabeza de familia
— household role
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Spanish:
jefe de familia
— household role
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Spanish:
jefe de hogar
— household role
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Spanish:
padre de familia
— household role
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Tibetan:
ཁྱིམ་པ
(khyim pa)
— household role
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Ukrainian:
голова́ сім'ї́
(holová simʺjí)
— household role
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Ukrainian:
голова́ роди́ни
(holová rodýny)
— household role
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Ukrainian:
голова́ домогоспода́рства
(holová domohospodárstva)
— household role